| Scent lures have been around for a very long | | | | had bucks coming into me, but no real big ones. I |
| time. Year after year hunters are placing out their | | | | decided to try something different, and went out |
| scents, in hopes of bagging that monster buck | | | | at night and attached a piece of cloth to a string. I |
| that picks up on the scent they placed out, most | | | | doused the cloth with the scent and tied the |
| of the time with no results. This brings many | | | | string to my 4 wheeler and ran all over the |
| hunters to ask, do scents really work? | | | | woods we were hunting, dragging the scent cloth |
| I have been an avid hunter spending every day | | | | behind. The next morning, everyone that was |
| of whitetail season in the woods year after year. | | | | hunting at the camp saw bucks, and a couple |
| I have used scents numerous times, without the | | | | small 8 pointers were taken. That evening for the |
| expected results. That is until approximately 8 | | | | afternoon sit, I attached the cloth to my belt at |
| years ago when again I gave it a try and | | | | the door of the camp and walked to my stand. |
| purchased a bottle of "Doe in Heat". I am not | | | | Just as it was getting dark I heard a deer coming |
| mentioning a name brand as the point of this | | | | into me, but it was too dark to see. He was |
| article is not for advertising, but this time it was | | | | grunting and carrying on like nothing I have ever |
| proven to me that they do in fact work. | | | | heard. My hunting partner then came to where I |
| Every time I placed this scent out I had bucks | | | | was, spooking the buck off and we then returned |
| going crazy. During the Bow Season that year I | | | | to the camp. We had just gotten back to the |
| laid out the scent, by placing it on the bottom of | | | | camp, and had the door open, and were taking |
| my shoes, walked a circle around my stand, while | | | | our jackets off, when we heard a deer blow. We |
| it was still dark, and then entered my stand. A | | | | both looked up and a monster buck was at the |
| half hour after daylight, a very nice eight point | | | | door of the camp, he turned and bound away like |
| buck came running into me, following my scent | | | | a rocket. Remember where I started my scent |
| trail, grunting like an old boar hog. I was new to | | | | trail for the afternoon sit? The following morning, |
| bow hunting and not very good yet, and fired an | | | | we found about five rubs on trees with eight inch |
| arrow alot sooner than I should have. The Buck | | | | diameters, withing 100 feet of the camp. |
| stopped from his trotting with his nose to the | | | | Do scents work? I have never found another |
| ground, looked right up at me, then put his nose | | | | bottle of scent that has come close to |
| back to the ground and trotted through like a | | | | performing like that one bottle did. I now firmly |
| beagle after a rabbit, following my circle path that | | | | believe that scents do work, but do not believe |
| I had laid down. Being new to the Bow | | | | that the scents we buy are in fact doe in estrous, |
| experience, I fired the four arrows that I had, as | | | | as they like to make us think. Could you imagine |
| the buck kept circling, never touching him. Having | | | | what it would cost, for the manufacturers of |
| no arrows left, I stayed in the stand and watched | | | | scent to sell the urine that was only collected |
| in amazement as the buck continued following | | | | during the peak of the cycle? That would about |
| that scent trail around for over an hour. | | | | to probably 2 or 3 days, twice a year, if she was |
| A few days later, when rifle season opened, I | | | | not bread during the first one, but when you find |
| again used this scent. This was in the northern | | | | that bottle that was produced at the proper time, |
| zone, and a long ways from where I had been | | | | you will find that yes scents work! |
| bow hunting. Every time I placed this scent out, I | | | | |